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Anderson Elementary. One-room African-American school, circa 1939. From the West Virginia Encyclopedia , an article discussing Africa...

Fifty years ago, Ray Sprigle of the  Post-Gazette  posed as a black man to experience firsthand what life was like for 10 million peo...

Following the Civil War, the Reverend Dr. Nathan Cook Brackett established a Freewill Baptist primary school in the Lockwood House on Camp H...

From Common Dreams , "Native Groups Mourn on Thanksgiving Day," by Leila Day on 21 November 2001: NEW YORK, Nov 20 (IPS) - On the...

School Integration in Clinton, Tennessee In 1956, Clinton High School in Clinton, Anderson County, Tennessee, was set to be the first h...

Anti-busing protest in Boston, 1976 Nothing Changes Peter Irons begins Jim Crow's Children with voices from the past. Drawing from WPA i...

The fraudulent state elections of 1875 removed many black and Republican lawmakers who had supported public school funding. Conservative wh...

Lacking no legal means to prevent Prudence Crandall from opening her school, Andrew Judson, a local politician, pushed legislation through t...

Prudence Crandall Prudence Crandall and the Canterbury Female Boarding School In the fall of 1831, the residents of Canterbury, Connecticut...